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Homemade food is to fast food as walking is to driving: Slower, healthier, more aware, better informed. When I cook, I know my ingredients. When I walk, I know what the small, hand-written signs say. #teamtortoise #wisdomofchildren #knowmoredobetter Also, I think she's been studying Martin Luther King and Gandhi. Athens City Schools must be rad. We're makin' moves! The literal kind and the business kind. This is Travis working in our make-shift home office since it took a month for our belongings to catch up to us in Athens. (Happy to report they caught up yesterday.) We were busy working on a logo design competition for Tenderfoot. Care to weigh in on our top 12 submissions? https://www.crowdspring.com/focus-group-participate/10545/c2d61520-dca7-46bc-bc2a-e9319a28c3eb/?utm_source=focusgroups_app&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=focusgroups We've traded one funky Ohio college town for another! Today we had a cookout at Strouds Run State Park in Athens, Ohio, our new stomping grounds. We're pretty excited to be here - it's in the heart of Appalachia and thus a perfect location to finally set up a permanent homebase for Tenderfoot. (More about our property hunt soon!) We knew Yellow Springs, OH would be a short chapter, but we'll nevertheless miss its bike-friendliness and the like-minded friends we made. Swipe through to go backward through our 2-week tour of family and friends between towns. Pics: 1. Travis super excited about grilling on Memorial Day (Last year we were on the Appalachian Trail, salivating at the thought of cookouts, but settled for oatmeal and dehydrated pasta.) 2. A recording for a PBS show where we got to hear Strawberry Wine's songwriter sing it live 3. Our car overheating as we were house hunting in Athens 4. What friendship looks like 5. Lindsey's brother with her new niece! 6. Dear friend Shawna and her one-eyed, three-legged jackal, Durga 7. Hiking in Duluth, Minnesota with Shawna and Durga 8. Time off always means time for Brewnuts, a Cleveland shop that loves all things local as much as we do 9. Our belongings leaving Antioch College in Yellow Springs. We miss them. #tenderfootadventures #moving #househunting #wannabuyafarm #loveourtribe #newcarneeded #nonprofit #startup Some life chapters are shorter than others. Back in December, we finished our hike-a-thon on the Appalachian Trail and landed jobs in the very funky, nature-loving town of Yellow Springs, OH. We were excited about what this could mean for furthering Tenderfoot's goals, but we were quickly distracted by our new lives. A strong anti-administration sentiment amongst students made the transition rocky, and just as we were getting our footing, a campus-wide protest set the world spinning again. Amidst long days and late nights of emergency meetings, Lindsey developed a cold. Then a sinus infection. Then a weeks-long hacking, wheezy cough. Then a full-blown asthma attack. In four short months, Songbird went from hiking mountains every day to taking the elevator to get to the 2nd floor. So, we decided to cut and run before this environment could be any more detrimental to our health and distracting from our long-term goals. We'll miss living across the road from a nature preserve, using our feet or bikes for most transportation needs, and the delicious local food scene. But we're totally stoked for what we've set up next. Scroll on through to see where we're headed! #listentoyourbody #trailteachings #appalachiabound #tenderfootadventures #focusonpipedreams #nonprofit #studyaway #sustainabilityeducation #experientiallearning
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